Importance of Perception:-

 

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Importance of Perception:-

1.Boosting Performance:-

Perception helps to know environment, human, structure and technology in organization and how they interact with each other. Understanding these things assists in enhancing individual performance which boosts organizational performance too.

2.Makes Life Easy:-
Perception helps to make our daily life easy. Our view towards surroundings influences our ideas, reactions, responses, attitudes and behavior. Such view about surroundings comes through perception. Perception helps to understand situations, patterns and situations and related each other.


3.Understanding task:-

Perception helps to understand management, employees and other stakeholders. Due to which industrial relationship gets better as a result communication becomes better among them. Better communication makes us understand the tasks to be done.
4.Shaping Personality:-
Perception is also influenced by our values, emotion, feelings and personality. Perception will shape our behavior. Same behavior patterns make our distinct feature than others which is personality.

5.New Insight:-
Perception provides new insight to people about any action, object and happenings. If human is forced to see anything from other's perspective, then perception starts to achieve new insight. New insight helps in comprehending others and assisting them in right way.

6.Qualitative Decision Making:-
Considering factors influencing perception will help in increasing quality of decision. It increases the capacity of manager to select relevant and irrelevant information. The knowledge of perceptual errors like stereotyping, Halo effects and projects makes manger careful and reduces biasness. It means decision becomes qualitative.

7.Ascertaining Requirements:-
Perception helps to ascertain requirements of individual. Human requirement is effected by his personal perception. For example, person who thinks drinking beer is enjoyable to him, he needs beer and who thinks it is injurious to health, he does not need beer.

8.Dealing Workforce Diversity:-
Understanding of perception helps to develop ability of manager to deal with workforce diversity.

9.Anticipating  Employee Behavior:-
Perception helps to anticipate human behavior. It is because human shows certain behavior accordance with his perception. If manager could read perception of an employee, he can predict his behavior.

10.Changing Employee's Attitude:-
Managers can use concept of perception to change employee's attitudes.

11.Comprehending Employee Behavior:-
Perception plays crucial role in comprehending behavior of people. Perception helps to know different perspective of people by providing information about different situations which influence on employee behavior. Perception may vary to every person even for same event. Everything we realized or felt may be different from reality. We get happy in job is not due to well working environment. It is because we think working environment well.

12.Stress Management:-
Perception helps in stress management. It is done by ignoring negative aspects of work experiences. For example: ignoring negatives co-partners at work.

13.Reducing Mistakes:-
Perception is most important for those who want to reduce working mistakes in organization. Generally, mistakes of work are caused by different type of perception between different workers and managers for same action, object and happenings. If managers get art of understanding the specific events from other's perception, he can understand employees in right way. He can also prevent fault in works.

14.Conflict Resolution:-
Perception helps to identify sources of conflicts. It helps to make plan of reducing them.

15.Makes Empathetic:-
Perception makes managerial capacity to observe situation and analyze behavior in other's perspectives. It means manager becomes empathetic to others.

Sub-process of perception:-

The several sub processes of perception shows that perception is not an easy process. It is complicated process and feature wise it is inter linked to each other. These sub processes are concerned with each other. Perceptual process of human goes through several sub-processes.

(1).Stimulus or Situation:-
It is the initial sub-process of perception. Physical environment and socio-cultural environment are major stimulus in the context of organization. Physical environment consists of office, factory floor, laboratory, store and climate etc. Socio-cultural environment consists of management styles, discrimination and values etc. These are stimulus for employee's perception. Stimulus is considered first sub process of perception it is because employee only thinks about that information which is important for this process.

 (2).Confrontation:-
When people are confronted with internal or external stimuli, they start perceiving. This confrontation may provide feeling of immediate sensual stimulation or total physical and cultural environment. Perception starts there where employee confronted with specific stimulus. For example they confronted with supervisor or new procedure and they start making new perception.  Perception begins after interacting with stimulus or situation.

(3).Recording:-
Recording or registration of stimulus received from surroundings is done in human brain. Stimuli creates situation to be perceived and people perceive through sensory and neural mechanism. Finally, perception is recorded at brain. Physical mechanism such as listening, hearing, etc. play active role in the perception of individual.

(4).Explanation:-
Explanation or Interpretation is a mental process. The received stimulus are evaluated and analyzed during this sub-process. Interpretation depends upon the motivation, learning and personality of people. Interpretation of subject matter is done on the same base. For example: Interpretation of specific situation in organization done by employees depends upon his motivation, qualification and personality

(5).Feedback:-
Feedback is certain responses shown by people to stimulus or environmental situation. Feedback influences on perception of people. It helps to reach at certain conclusions and certain behavioral reactions can be exposed. For example if supervisor praises (feedback) the work of an employee, then he thinks that supervisor is happy (perception) with his performance.

(6).Behavior:-
Response on such perception is seen on behavior and body due to order of mind. For example:- Red face when scolded by manager and happy face due to appreciation of manager. Response can be overt or covert, positive or negative:-
(i). Overt/Covert response:-
Hidden responses in the mind are called overt. Externally shown responses through body expression and speaking are called covert.
(ii).Positive/Negative response:-
If analysis of information provides the feelings of happiness and joy by matching needs and interests of one, such person shows positive response. If information is against his needs and interests, that person shows negative responses.

(7). Consequences:-
The sub process of perception influence how we perceive and interact with people in organization and can lead to adaptive and maladaptive responses. It impacts on behavior, cognition, emotions, interactions, biases and prejudices. Positive perception of employee towards organization brings better performance.

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